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Staffing 360 Solutions (Staffing 360 Solutions) Earnings Power Value (EPV) : $10.81 (As of Sep23)


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What is Staffing 360 Solutions Earnings Power Value (EPV)?

As of Sep23, Staffing 360 Solutions's earnings power value is $10.81. *

* GuruFocus does not store EPV value into our database if Average Maintenance CAPEX is 0.

Margin of Safety is 97.77

The basic concept of EPV is that one should value a stock based on the current free cash flow of a company and not on future projections which may, or may not, come true. It is arguably a better way to analyze stocks than Discounted Cash Flow analysis that relies on highly speculative growth assumptions many years into the future. Assumption: Current profitability is sustainable.


Staffing 360 Solutions Earnings Power Value (EPV) Historical Data

The historical data trend for Staffing 360 Solutions's Earnings Power Value (EPV) can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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Staffing 360 Solutions Earnings Power Value (EPV) Chart

Staffing 360 Solutions Annual Data
Trend May13 May14 May15 May16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22
Earnings Power Value (EPV)
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 100.72 241.18 238.61 41.17 24.53

Staffing 360 Solutions Quarterly Data
Dec18 Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23
Earnings Power Value (EPV) Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 27.23 24.53 18.42 14.14 10.81

Competitive Comparison of Staffing 360 Solutions's Earnings Power Value (EPV)

For the Staffing & Employment Services subindustry, Staffing 360 Solutions's Earnings Power Value (EPV), along with its competitors' market caps and Earnings Power Value (EPV) data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Staffing 360 Solutions's Earnings Power Value (EPV) Distribution in the Business Services Industry

For the Business Services industry and Industrials sector, Staffing 360 Solutions's Earnings Power Value (EPV) distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Staffing 360 Solutions's Earnings Power Value (EPV) falls into.



Staffing 360 Solutions Earnings Power Value (EPV) Calculation

Earnings Power Value also known as just Earnings Power is a valuation technique popularised by Bruce Greenwald, an authority on value investing at Columbia University. It is arguably a better way to analyze stocks than Discounted Cash Flow analysis that relies on highly speculative growth assumptions many years into the future.

The basic concept of EPV is that one should value a stock based on the current free cash flow of a company and not on future projections which may, or may not, come true. This valuation tool excludes the potential growth that a company may have so that needs to be looked at separately. Since future growth is excluded from the analysis, only the maintenance capital expenditures are subtracted from after-tax EBIT (earnings before interest and taxes) and growth capex is ignored.

Staffing 360 Solutions's "Earning Power" Calculation:

Average of Last 20 Quarters Last Quarter
Revenue 237.7
DDA 4.5
Operating Margin % -1.58
SGA * 25% 10.1
Tax Rate % 0.85
Maintenance Capex 0.4
Cash and Cash Equivalents 0.7
Short-Term Debt 1.3
Long-Term Debt 17.5
Shares Outstanding (Diluted) 4.4

1. Start with "Earnings" not including accounting adjustments (one-time charges not excluded unless policy has changed). "Earnings" are "Operating Income.

2. Look at average margins over a business/Industry cycle: Average Operating Margin = -1.58%

To normalize margins and eliminate the effects on profitability of valuing the firm at different points in the business cycle, it is usually best to take a long-term average of operating margins. Ideally this would be as long as 10 years and include at least one economic downturn. However, since most of companies do not have as long as 10-year history, here GuruFocus uses the latest 5 years data to do the calculation. To smooth out unusual years but reflect recent developments, we take an average of the 5 year margin.

3. Multiply average margins by sustainable revenues and then adjust for maintenance SGA. This yields "normalized" EBIT:

To be conservative, GuruFocus uses an average of the 5 year revenues as the sustainable revenue.
EPV analysis recognises that part of SG&A expenditure is made to maintain and replace the existing assets, while part is made to grow sales. Since EPV is only interested in what it costs a going concern to maintain its existing asset base, it adds back a percentage of SG&A (between 15% and 50% - this is a matter of judgment and industry knowledge) to make up for the fact that some of this expenditure went to fund growth and shouldn't be accounted for. To start off, we assume 25% for the sake of prudence.
Sustainable Revenue = $237.7 Mil, Average Operating Margin = -1.58%, Average Adjusted SGA = 10.1,
therefore "Normalized" EBIT = Sustainable Revenue * Average Operating Margin + Average Adjusted SGA = 237.7 * -1.58% +10.1 = $6.301355823 Mil.

4. Multiply by one minus Average Tax Rate (NOPAT):

Same as average operating margin calculation, GuruFocus takes an average of the 5 years tax rates.
Average Tax Rate = 0.85%, and "Normalized" EBIT = $6.301355823 Mil,
therefore After-tax "Normalized" EBIT = "Normalized" EBIT * ( 1 - Average Tax Rate ) = 6.301355823 * ( 1 - 0.85% ) = $6.2475737510507 Mil.

5. Add back Excess Depreciation (after tax at 1/2 average tax rate). This yields "normalized" Earnings:

Excess Depreciation = Average DDA * % of Excess Depreciation (after tax at 1/2 average tax rate) = 4.5 * 0.5 * 0.85% = $0.0190236615 Mil.
"Normalized" Earnings = After-tax "Normalized" EBIT + Excess Depreciation = 6.2475737510507 + 0.0190236615 = $6.2665974125507 Mil.

6. Adjusted for Maintenance Capital Expenditure:

First, calculate the revenue change regarding to the previous year. If the revenue decreased from the previous year, then the Maintenance Capital Expenditure = Capital Expenditure (positive).
Second, if the revenue increased from the previous year, then calculate the percentage of Net PPE as of corresponding Revenue.
Third, calculate Capital Expenditure (positive) - percentage of Net PPE as of corresponding Revenue * revenue increase.
If [Capital Expenditure (positive) - percentage of Net PPE as of corresponding Revenue * revenue increase] was negative, then the Maintenance Capital Expenditure = Capital Expenditure (positive).
If [Capital Expenditure (positive) - percentage of Net PPE as of corresponding Revenue * revenue increase] was positive, then the Maintenance Capital Expenditure = Capital Expenditure (positive) - percentage of Net PPE as of corresponding Revenue * revenue increase.
Fourth, GuruFocus uses an average of the 5 year maintenance capital expenditures as maintenance CAPEX.
Staffing 360 Solutions's Average Maintenance CAPEX = $0.4 Mil *.
* GuruFocus does not store EPV value into our database if Average Maintenance CAPEX is 0.

7. Investors require a return of "WACC" for the risk they are taking: WACC = 9%

8. Staffing 360 Solutions's current cash and cash equivalent = $0.7 Mil.
Staffing 360 Solutions's current interest bearing debt = Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation = 17.5 + 1.3 = $18.844 Mil.
Staffing 360 Solutions's current Shares Outstanding (Diluted Average) = 4.4 Mil.

Staffing 360 Solutions's Earnings Power Value (EPV) for Sep23 is calculated as:

EPV = ( ( Norm. Earnings-Maint. CAPEX *) / WACC + CashandEquiv - Int. Bearing Debt ) / Shares Outstanding (Diluted Average)
= ( ( 6.2665974125507 - 0.4)/ 9%+0.7-18.844 )/4.4
=10.81

Margin of Safety (EPV)=( Earnings Power Value (EPV)-Current Price )/Earnings Power Value (EPV)
=( 10.805944859644-0.2413 )/10.805944859644
= 97.77%

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

* GuruFocus does not store EPV value into our database if Average Maintenance CAPEX is 0.


Staffing 360 Solutions  (NAS:STAF) Earnings Power Value (EPV) Explanation

Assumption: Current profitability is sustainable.

Earnings power value (EPV) uses a very basic equation which assumes no growth, although it does rely on an assumption about the cost of capital as well as the fact that current earnings are sustainable. It also involves several adjustments to clean up the underlying Earnings figures.


Be Aware

Though using today's earnings in calculating Earnings Power Value, GuruFocus is normalizing these earnings to the business cycle. This eliminates the effects on profitability of valuing the firm at different points in the business cycle. This means that we are considering the average earnings over 5 years.


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Staffing 360 Solutions (Staffing 360 Solutions) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
757 3rd Avenue, 27th Floor, New York, NY, USA, 10017
Staffing 360 Solutions, Inc. is a public company in the staffing sector engaged in the execution of a global buy-and-build strategy through the acquisition of domestic and international staffing organizations in the US and the UK. The Company believes the staffing industry offers opportunities for accretive acquisitions that will drive its annual revenues to $300 million. As part of its targeted consolidation model, the Company is pursuing acquisition targets in the finance and accounting, administrative, engineering and IT staffing space.
Executives
Anil Kumar Sharma 10 percent owner 24 HAYHURST DRIVE, NEWTOWN PA 18940
Satvinder Singh 10 percent owner 24 HAYHURST DRIVE, NEWTOWN PA 18940
Rscube Investment, Llc 10 percent owner 24 HAYHURST DRIVE, NEWTOWN PA 18940
Vincent J Cebula director 1301 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS, 34 TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10019
Brendan Flood director
M Khalid Anwar officer: SVP, Corporate Finance 641 LEXINGTON AVE, NEW YORK NY 10022
Mark Gibbens officer: CFO 245 FREIGHT STREET, WATERBURY CT 06702
Chris Powers officer: Interim CFO 641 LEXINGTON AVENUE, 27TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10022
Sharnika Viswakula officer: Corporate Controller 641 LEXINGTON AVENUE, 27TH FLOOR, C/O STAFFING 360 SOLUTIONS, INC., NEW YORK NY 10022
Jackson Investment Group, Llc 10 percent owner 2655 NORTHWINDS PARKWAY, ALPHARETTA GA 30009
Richard Lee Jackson 10 percent owner 2655 NORTHWINDS PARKWAY, ALPHARETTA GA 30009
Alicia Barker director C/O STAFFING 360 SOLUTIONS, INC., 641 LEXINGTON AVENUE, 27TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10022
Christopher John Lutzo officer: General Counsel and Secretary 355 SUBURBAN AVENUE, FAIRFIELD CT 06825
David Faiman officer: Chief Financial Officer 93 GEORGETOWN ROAD, WESTON CT 06883
Nicholas Florio director C/O STAFFING 360, 641 LEXINGTON AVENUE, SUITE 1526, NEW YORK NY 10022